Abstract

Women are often absent or peripheral in most mainstream historical narratives, particularly in predominantly patriarchal cultures like that of the Philippines. This lack of documentation on women, in turn, creates further challenges in attempts to assemble more inclusive histories. To fill such gaps, archives provide invaluable resources and information. More than passive repositories, women’s archives are political statements against consigning women and their contributions to oblivion.

Ms. Isabel Consuelo A. Nazareno is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University. She is also the current Executive Director of the Ateneo Library of Women's Writings (ALIWW)—an archive dedicated to Filipino women and one of the special collections of the Rizal Library. She obtained her M.A. in Art History at University of the Philippines Diliman. She authored the book Discovering Manansala (2005).

Her research interests include Women History, Visual History, Art History.